Re: New package proposal: Math_Calculus

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 00:46, you wrote: > You could release Math_Numerical_Differentiation (or Derivative) and > Math_Numerical_Integration. That way, the code is in easily digestible bits > ;-) And maybe this classes could offer different methods. For example one method which returns a quite exact but needs some time and one which returns not-so-good results but don't call the input-function so often, so you can use a cuite complex function with it. > Agree, perhaps coordinating the work w/ the phpmath.com people will be a > good solution. The more people involved the better the code can be. I'll see what they are going to do and dicuss a bit with them, but in any case i preferr getting listed in Pear, becaus that's whre the people imho look first for such things and imho it don't make sense spending thousands of hours to build up a thing nobody uses ;-) > The 'Numerical Recipes in XX' (where XX = Fortran, C, C++, etc.) is a good > collection of books. It is just great that the people at Los Alamos > National Lab (LANL) have put them up on the web as PDFs I've found out that the library of my university has them so I can get them printed - that's imho much better for reading. > Indeed, Math is not boring if one has a use for it in mind (or if you like > strange and interesting stuff) ;-) Just like many other things... johannes